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Gamers have grown accustomed to waiting for the other shoe to drop when a grisly crime–especially one involving guns or murder–happens. Sooner or later, some media outlet somewhere is going to try to find a link between video games and the horror that one person visits upon another.

If you’ve got a hankering to join the world’s biggest nerdfest (no, we’re not talking about Comic-Con), you might have to hop a plane all the way to Changzhou, China to get the ultimate Warcraft and Starcraft fix.

Billed as the world’s first video game-themed amusement park, “World Joyland” is …

“I come from the orcs, we eat with spoons and forks, we love to eat our pork!” That’s the sound of a male orc in online roleplaying behemoth World of Warcraft. In China, it may also be the sound of an orc male working on the chain gang, by which I mean an actual Chinese prisoner playing an orc male in Blizzard’s mega-MMO to rack up very …

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm has become the world’s fastest selling PC game of all time, according to Blizzard Entertainment.

“We had to bring Azeroth to the brink of destruction in Cataclysm, but the result was our best expansion yet,” CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment Mike Morhaime said. “We want to thank all of our new, …

I’ve got a confession to make: I’m a World of Warcraft virgin. Now, I’ve had some experience with the game: I’ve sat behind my roommate and friends for countless hours as we talked about our lives while they battled with their Troll. I’ve even sat down for a few hours at a time and ran around on their accounts, not stopping to talk to …

It’s Cataclysm Day, the day that millions of people around the world reckon with the destruction wrought by Deathwing the Destroyer. People will be buzzing about all the changes to both Azeroth and World of Warcraft and we’re giving away this sweet headset so you can catch all the clamor. Here’s the official description from manufacturer …

You still have to wait until December 7, but Blizzard is letting you take a sneak peak at the new World of Warcraft: Cataclysm. The cinematic trailer doesn’t show you actual gameplay, but it looks pretty awesome.

Last week, Blizzard released patch 4.0.1 to fix bugs and improve game play in anticipation for this release. The new …

It’s been in beta for months and rumors had it slotted to an early 2011 release, but Blizzard’s sent out the official word that Cataclysm will launch on December 7. The newest chapter of the MMO reconfigures familiar parts of Azeroth to provide new challenges for both new and experienced players alike. Along with those changes, the level …

MTV Multiplayer‘s posted a nerdgasm-inducing bit of info that could bring two awesome sci-fi visions together, if we all wish hard enough. In an interview with MTV’s Russ Frushtick, Rob Pardo–Blizzard’s Executive Vice President of Game Design–offered up the following observation about moving their game franchises onto the silver …